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manufacturers of the Theriaca, and have this inscription over their 
doors, in large letters, Theriaca Mithridata * ” 
At Venice, MM. Hoppe and Hornschuch took leave of M. 
HohJ, and proceeded in a gondola to Padua. 44 March 15th, we 
went to the Botanic Garden f, which still exhibited rather a win- 
try appearance. Amongst a collection of officinal plants, scien- 
tifically arranged, there were some spring-flowers, as Hellebori , 
Tussilagines , Primula , Palmonaria officinalis , and Daphne 
Mezereum $ in great beauty. Here were noble trees of Pinus 
Pinea , Phillyrea media , and Melia Azedarach , in the open air. 
The stoves are not remarkable. 
Most of the alpine plants were in pots, under cover. We en- 
quired for, but could not see, Professor Bonati. 44 II est deja 
sorti,” said the gardener. At 10 o’clock we attended an ana- 
tomical lecture, and at 1 1 a botanical one. The Professor wore 
a peculiar dress ; a long clerical robe, ornamented with bands 
spotted with black and white, like ermine, with white sleeves. 
He had a good delivery, and lectured upon the parts of the 
flower to an audience of about fifty persons. When the lecture 
was half finished, and the Professor intimated that he should 
begin the examination, there was a general clapping of hands. 
Each person, who was called by name to answer, stood up, 
pulled off his hat, and replied to the questions almost entirely 
from his papers, which had, perhaps, formed the subject of a 
preceding lecture, as nothing was taken down in writing to-day. 
* Or, as it is frequently called, Theriaca, Andromaehi , because Andromachus, 
physician to the Emperor Nero, if he did not invent this medicine, at least sung 
its praises in elegiac verses. It is said to be a compound of no less than sixty four 
articles, animals, plants and minerals, among which viper’s flesh is the principal 
prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey, to an electuary. At least 
as many diseases as there are ingredients in the composition, are said to be cured 
by it ; and it yet holds a place in the Materia Medica , although nowhere to be had 
in such perfection as at Venice. 44 All the exploded articles,” (says Sir James E. 
Smith, in his account of Venice), 44 of which that celebrated hodge-podge is com- 
pounded, as well as many other obsolete drugs, are only to be obtained here ; espe- 
cially as medicine is nearly in as dark a state in this city as it was 200 years ago,” 
— Ed, 
1* This was the first institution deserving the name of a Botanic Garden, that 
ever was established, and was founded in 1533, by Alfonso Estensis, Duke of Fer- 
rara, better known as the Patron of Tasso.— Ed. 
